{"id":9844,"date":"2009-01-29T15:00:53","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taggedtalk.com\/blog\/2009-01-29-rip-john-martyn.html"},"modified":"2009-01-29T15:00:53","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T14:00:53","slug":"rip-john-martyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/9844-rip-john-martyn.html","title":{"rendered":"RIP John Martyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my best musical memories is of John Martyn and Danny Thompson playing through Solid Air at the Cropredy festival \u2013 I forget the year, it was during the Eighties. A magical summer evening. News of Martyn\u2019s death came today in a brief entry on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnmartyn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taggedtalk.com\/pix\/jmartyn.gif\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>What can I say? I love his music for its individuality, depth, emotion, jazzy edginess, and yearning.<\/p>\n<p>Solid Air may be his greatest work but my own favourite albums are Sunday\u2019s Child and Inside Out.<\/p>\n<p>Solid Air was written for Nick Drake; I hope someone writes an equally beautiful song for John.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:a3640858-2276-4a05-9155-7ca4cfb4f263\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/john+martyn\" rel=\"tag\">john martyn<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my best musical memories is of John Martyn and Danny Thompson playing through Solid Air at the Cropredy festival \u2013 I forget the year, it was during the Eighties. A magical summer evening. News of Martyn\u2019s death came today in a brief entry on his web site. What can I say? I love &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/9844-rip-john-martyn.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RIP John Martyn<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1073,1075],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-john-martyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}